Tag: Disease Prevention

Kim Kozlowski of the Detroit News reports, “For the first time in the United States, scientists have shown that the antibiotic-resistant bacteria MRSA is sometimes found in meat and poultry […]

According to reports in the Washington Post, a woman infected with measles, a contagious disease which can be dangerous to some patients, was present in the District and Maryland after […]

Catheter-related bloodstream infections kill 30,000 hospital patients and infect a total of 80,00 patients in the U.S. each year.  So why aren’t more hospitals adopting the simple five-step approach to […]

Clostridium difficile or “C. diff.”  killed more patients in England in 2006 than MRSA. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported a nearly twofold increase in C. diff infections from […]

Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, Esquire Earlier this week, it was reported that there were six “probable” cases of swine flu in Maryland, but none in DC or Virginia.  Unfortunately, […]

By Salvatore J. Zambri, Esquire Your chances of getting sick from tainted food may depend on how diligent your state inspection system is, according to an article in the New […]

Kitchen sponges are cheap and convenient items for cleaning countertop messes and absorbing spilled liquids quickly.  Unfortunately, they al